Our faithful reader Gene Allen

Our faithful reader Gene Allen has his own reflections on unilateralism/multilateralism that may help up pursue the issue in a way that will clarify our thougts. Gene’s analysis distinguishes between the instrumental use of mulitilateralism–multilateralism pursued with the sole intention of achieving America’s national objectives–and multilateralism in principle–mulitilaterlism pursued for its own good even when it conflicts with America’s national interest. We believe in the former; the latter is the ideology of national suicide, i.e., liberalism. Gene writes as follows:
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